Delivery flights

Watch the video: Getting to the aircraft

If your airline has switched on Delivery flights, new aircraft don't simply appear in the fleet. They wait at the factory airport where they were built, and a pilot flies each one to the airline.

Fly a delivery

1. Open Book a flight → Flight list and press Delivery flights.
2. Pick an aircraft that is Waiting at the factory and press Book delivery. Your rank must allow the aircraft type, and you can't hold another booking.
3. If your airline keeps pilots where they landed, you go to the factory airport as a jumpseat, under the airline's jumpseat rules (cost, weekly limit, wait). Then the delivery is booked as a charter from the factory to the airport staff chose. Plan and fly it like any other flight, with ACARS.
4. When your flight counts (accepted, or complete), the aircraft joins the fleet where you landed, and your name is on its delivery.

One pilot flies each delivery. If you cancel the booking, the aircraft stays at the factory for someone else, and you stay at the factory airport. If staff turn the flight down, the aircraft goes back to the factory and is open again; if they accept it later, while no other pilot has taken the delivery, the aircraft still joins the fleet where you landed.

Delivery flights are virtual airline deliveries, for flight simulation only.

For staff

1. Switch it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features → Delivery flights. Charter flights must be on too (Staff → Airline settings → Settings → Charters), because a delivery is booked as a charter.
2. Open Staff → Operations → Fleet and follow the Delivery flights link.
3. Enter the registration, the type, the factory airport (for example Toulouse LFBO, Hamburg Finkenwerder EDHI, Mobile KBFM, Tianjin ZBTJ, Everett KPAE, Charleston KCHS or Mirabel CYMX; any airport works) and the airport it goes to. Press Add.
4. The aircraft is in your fleet at the factory, hidden from normal booking, until a pilot delivers it.

While nobody holds a delivery, you can Deliver without a flight (the aircraft joins the fleet at its destination straight away) or Cancel it (an aircraft that never flew is removed).

Use "factory" or "delivery airport" in your own posts, not a manufacturer's branding. If your airline is named after a real airline, say the delivery is the virtual airline's, for example "Nile Wings (virtual) adds SU-NWA".